Quotes About Idealism

This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.

By understanding the world I mean being equal to the world. It is the hard reality of living that is the essential, not the concept of life, that the ostrich philosophy of idealism propounds.

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

Hope I die before I get old.This is my generation.

the best of all possible worlds

Nobody on earth is more righteous than a seventeen year old. (244)

The problem of utopia is that it can only be approached across a sea of blood, and you never arrive.

The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.